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Example sentences for "somethin"

Lexicographically close words:
somersault; somersaulting; somersaults; somesing; sometam; something; somethings; somethink; sometime; sometimes
  1. I've been expectin somethin o' this sort.

  2. Wal," said Uncle Moses, "there's somethin in that too.

  3. I was bound to hab somethin to show whenebber I got back, if I ebber did get back; and so here I am, all alibe, an a bringin my lobstas wid me.

  4. Wal, he did go up thar; he said partic'lar that he wanted to find somethin of a relish, an would hunt up thar.

  5. Wal, thar don't seem jest now to be any wind to speak of, but it kine o' strikes me that it's somethin like southerly weather.

  6. Went out," said he, "on a splorin scursion, cos I was termined to try an skewer somethin to make a dinnah to keep up de sperrit ob dis yah party.

  7. So away Mally ran to their awn doctor's shop; 'Gie me somethin for Tom, for his belly's stopt up.

  8. So in er year er two niggers went tuh tryin tuh duh somethin fuh demselves, an been tryin tuh help dey selfs evah since.

  9. De nex year de white fokes let us make a crop wid den fuh somethin tuh eat an clo'es an de women could work fuh a few clo'es an somethin tuh eat.

  10. Lincoln wuz somethin like regular president an Jeff Davis wuz somethin like er confedric president or somethin.

  11. Dese vats wuz somethin like troughs dat helt water an he put a layer uv oak ashes an or layer uv ashes an a layer uv leather till he got hit all in an covered wid water.

  12. When dey tell yuh tuh do somethin run an do it.

  13. Say dey hung Abraham Lincoln on de sour apple tree or old Jeff Davis or somethin like dat.

  14. First one en den de other bring me a plate en somethin another.

  15. Dere somebody bringin me somethin to eat all de time en I don' be studyin bout it neither.

  16. Say dat some of de white folks give dey niggers somethin to go on en some of dem didn' spare dem nothin.

  17. I knows once long time back I was gwine long de road late on a evenin drivin me ox what I had hitch up to de cart en a ghost or somethin or another cause dat cart wheel to go right in de ditch.

  18. I tell dem chillun dere de other night dat I would have to go back en get my mind fixed up wid somethin to speak bout fore you come here another time.

  19. My Evelina, she always would eat en she used to bring Lala here wid her a heap of times to get somethin to eat.

  20. I hear talk dat a man plowed up a chest or somethin another de other day full of money, so dey tells me.

  21. I set dere awhile en seems like somethin just speak right out de fire, bout dat time, en tell me to move my feet dat I was in bad shape.

  22. Thought it must a been somethin like dat.

  23. Just try to do a little somethin to help myself along.

  24. I don' know how dey do it, but I remembers I hear dem talkin somethin bout turnin plate.

  25. Willow tea was somethin good for chill en fever en catnip en sage tea was de thing for babies.

  26. I remember, dem poorbuckras would just go bout from one house to another en catch somethin here, dere en yonder.

  27. Ah," came the treble again, "it wouldn't take me long to do somethin to him.

  28. So they took him to where pore old Pipes lay in his chair, his head lollin back, somethin dreadful to see.

  29. Is you ax Miss Mammie for somethin to clean up dat nose wid?

  30. Well, dey done somethin of everything in dat day en time en work bout all de time.

  31. Dey might been intended for dem to get somethin when dey was freed, but I never learn of nobody gettin nothin.

  32. My Jesus, my brother tell bout when dey had my mother layin out on de coolin board, I went in de room whe' she was en axed her for somethin to eat en pushed her head dat way.

  33. I plant a garden side de road en one night I hear somethin en I look out en dere was a great big black thing in me garden dat was makin right for de house.

  34. I hear say two intelligent people didn' live so far apart en one never treat dey colored people right en being as dey wasn' allowed to go from one place to another widout dey had a ticket wid dem, dey would steal somethin en run away.

  35. Had to do somethin another all de time, but never didn' nobody be obliged to break dey neck en hurry en get done in dem days.

  36. Sis, I did somethin last night dat I oughtn't done en I can' hardly walk dis mornin.

  37. Oh, I wishes I did know somethin bout dat old time war cause I tell you, if I been know anything, I would sho pour it out to you.

  38. I been doin somethin ever since I been big enough to know I somebody.

  39. Government truck brings me little somethin once a month pack up in packages like dry milk en oatmeal en potatoes.

  40. I knows dat been somethin come dere to scare me out dat house.

  41. Hear dem say some white folks hold dem long time till dey could make out to get somethin for demselves.

  42. Reckon while dey was at de cornshuckin, I must been somewhe' huntin somethin to eat.

  43. Yes, mam, dey been know what spell somethin in dat day en time.

  44. Every womin what kums must ware a Poverty dres and apern, er somethin ekelly erpropriate, an leave her poodle dorg to hum.

  45. Evry womman who kums must ware a kaliko dres and apern, ore somethin ekally apropriate.

  46. One day ole Uncle Henry Jones done somethin and run off and climbed a tree and de Newton's miss him so dey called de dogs and dey went on to de tree.

  47. We made all of our wool clothes from dem sheeps wool and let me tell yo somethin else, ah think ah got some sheep wool in mah trunk now ah had hit fifty years.

  48. Illustration: "I felt as if I had somethin I must give up.

  49. Arter all, Perez, we've made somethin by't.

  50. We mout a knowed somethin wuz a gonter happin," said Abner.

  51. Them new laws ull be somethin of a lift; an harf a loaf be considabul better nor no bread.

  52. They danced and sung somethin like the Shaking Quakers, and I can't say that it was very edefyin.

  53. I shall pack up in a few days, onless somethin onexpected occurs, and it may be the next time you heer from me, will be from Downingville.

  54. Now," ses I, "Linkin, I think this country is somethin like old Hopkinses corn.

  55. I know somethin about splittin rails, and what hard work is ginerally, but this nigger questshin has puzzled me more than enny thing I ever got hold of before.

  56. I thought theyd give em somethin different Thanksgivin but not a chance.

  57. Then she said somethin like "Hed ought to be known better.

  58. I bought somethin for you but Im not going to tell you cause its a surprize.

  59. I dont sleep good less I have a little somethin on my stummick.

  60. An then the Sargent rites somethin in a little book.

  61. We spent most of our time tryin to find somethin to burn up in the Sibly stoves.

  62. I thought youd like to put it on the mantle in a conspikuous place sos to have somethin to be proud of when your girl friend comes in to talk.

  63. When she started to say somethin I just kept right on talkin just to show her that bein a Colonels wife she wasnt expected to make no effort.

  64. I guess theres somethin in the drill regulations what makes him say that cause I aint got no other shirt yet.

  65. An I aint agoin to hold it up against you that I been savin in the bank for most two years sos to have a little somethin towards that house with the green blinds.

  66. There always hopin it ull be somethin else I guess.

  67. They dont want us to spend our money foolish sos we can buy the Singer Buildin or a Ford or somethin like that when the war is over.

  68. They don't know nothin about my comin, but I dessay they'll find me somethin to sleep on.

  69. The wings grew out of his chubby shoulders, and the pesky little scamp seemed tu be a larfin at me through the smoke all the while that he made believe that he was a droppin somethin down intu the gold sarser.

  70. Just sos well have somethin more to guard I guess.

  71. Of course I wouldnt wear them till I do somethin pretty good but I figure out that itll take so long to get em over there that it would be better to get em now and take em over with me.

  72. While we was snoopin round we just discovered somethin awful.

  73. Have you got an epidermic or somethin up north, Mable?

  74. I guess the aunts thought he was a new mountin or somethin cause they was all standin on him the next mornin.

  75. Hed have spent it for somethin foolish anyhow.

  76. Its been rollin round somethin awful all mornin.

  77. He says "Well if you dont do somethin about it next week then you wont have nobody to blame but yourself.

  78. I just been lookin over my stuff to find somethin to wear home.

  79. Thats somethin that aint ever happened to him before.

  80. I guess the Lieutenant thought he was in the audience department or somethin cause right away after the Captin left he came down and said now he was goin to make a battery out of us.

  81. Besides it gives you somethin to think about when you sittin talkin.

  82. Angus says they call the right hand horse the off horse because the fello what rides him is always off doin somethin else.

  83. I guess well all take a lot more interest in the shootin if theres somethin worth while to fire at.

  84. Just somethin the matter with my stummick.

  85. It de blessed truth I'm tellin you, dere some of dese people right bout here now got dese transfer driver gwine down in de country to get people to do somethin for dem all de time.

  86. See, old boss would give dem everything dey had en provide a plenty somethin to eat for dem all de time.

  87. Tell me dey put somethin on de rag I had wipe my eyes wid.

  88. Honey, if some people in dis town had dis rheumatism I got, dey would swear somebody do somethin to dem.

  89. Dem Durant chillun ain' never had to hunt for no hand to do somethin for dem.

  90. When I was comin up, I didn' have nothin to grieve over, but seem like dere somethin all de time dese days.

  91. You see, she was always lookin to me to do somethin for her.

  92. It was somethin to chaw on, he hadn't been used to the flavor of, I reckon.

  93. At last my foot kotched in somethin or another, that pitched me somewhat less than a rod or so, right agin the poor black critter, and away we went, heels over head.

  94. There seems a kinder somethin in us that rises in our throat when we think on it, and wont let us.

  95. Kin you keep you mouth shet bout somethin if I tells you?

  96. I powerful skerd, yet I bleged to go, cause I got ter git somethin for mistus ter eat, and de very fust person I meet war Mars Winthrop.

  97. Mars Winthrop sure anxious ter do somethin fer we all.

  98. Well, one night I was sure I hear somethin thar.

  99. I listened, and then somethin gin a kind o' screech, sounded like de little niggers when Aunt Peggy used to gin 'em a lick wid her switch.

  100. The Abolitioner, he said I'd be a gentleman when I got North, and I must have somethin ready to put on, to look like one.

  101. You knows if you makes up yo mind to do somethin and asks the Lord to help you he will.

  102. Then I took this here proving rod you sees here and drove it down in the groun till hit struck somethin hard.

  103. My ole missus never would git out in the sun widout somethin on her haid.

  104. Den dere somethin been rouse me up en all de dishes was a rattlin'.

  105. White folks would send for all us chillun to go up to de big house en get somethin to eat twixt meals.

  106. Don' know whe' she work all day or no, but I know she would always let up at 12 o'clock en come to de house to get her somethin to eat.

  107. Yes'um, old Massa would give her task to pick cotton en hoe cotton en pick peas or somethin another like dat 'bout all de time.

  108. Ax somebody dat know somethin 'bout dem things people say is a charm.

  109. My mother say she used to use so much witchcraft en some one whispered, 'Why don' you do somethin 'bout it?

  110. When he tuck it to de conjure man's house, de conjure man, he took de vine in a dark place and done somethin to it--de Lawd knows what.

  111. Didn' have to worry 'bout huntin dey clothes en somethin to eat in dat day en time.

  112. No, mam, de most of de people ain' got nothin now en dey ain' got nothin to buy somethin wid neither.

  113. Yes'um, I hear people talk 'bout somebody had hurt dem, but dey make a wrong mistake to say somebody do somethin to dem.

  114. Coase dey was passin through dat country all durin de war en come to de colored people's house en get somethin to eat.

  115. Two horses tramp en shake it out en den take straws en have somethin to catch it in en wind it out.

  116. Seem like it go somethin like dis: Oh, didn' it rain?

  117. Lays down only 'bout two hours, dats nother way I is allus curious in de fac' dat at nights I allus has somethin ter do.

  118. You know dere was a plenty to eat in slavery time 'cause de people made somethin to eat den, but ain' nothin now hardly.

  119. Dat somethin dat I ought to had ax my grandmammy 'bout how old I is, so den I might could call it up to you right sharp.

  120. There was a payriod," retorted Tom, "when England could have done somethin to appase Ireland, but that payriod is past and gone forever!

  121. Thet somethin turned out to be yurself an the grizzly, lyin in grups, as quiet as a kupple o' sleepin 'possums.

  122. We rid straight for him, an when we got closter, we seed somethin on the groun, right under the hoss's nose.

  123. Here's somethin to boast of like, a settin' at the fireside, mebbe, with me little ansisters upon me knees.

  124. A full-dressed girl of the Period, as she sails out for an afternoon airin, looks like somethin as I imagine the north pole would, with a 1/2 dozen rainbows rapt about it.


  125. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somethin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    something about; something akin; something analogous; something better; something between; something beyond; something different; something doing; something done; something else; something external; something extraordinary; something for; something foreign; something good; something held; something like; something more; something quite; something real; something resembling; something similar; something that; something very; something which; something wrong